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Eair rui la IM1 IU1 atfiai Is tint m 53 rd Year Medford 20 Pages Timber Uprooted As Hill Crumbles On Private Road Bodies Recovered From Mound of Earth Newport, Ore. (UPD - Two construction workers were crushed Thursday when a rain soaked hillside crumbled and uprooted thousands of board feet of timber on a private road on Georgia-Pacific' Co., land about 28 miles north of here. The body of construction foreman Harley Norton, 50, Grande Ronde, was dug from the mound of earth and wood about 3 p.m. The body of his co-worker, Pete Jacobs, 44, Springfield, was recovered about an hour later. Jacobs was a jack-hammer operator. A bulldozer operator, Ron nie Olman, was able to jump clear as the slide started. He radioed for help. The men were working on a gravel timber road near Euchre creek between Siletz and Kernville when the side of the hill above the road started to slide. A company spokesman said about 100,000 feet of timber was uprooted when the hillside gave way. The slide occurred about 10 a.m. It was an hour before rescue workers could reach the scene. About 70 men, un der the direction of G-P log ging manager Clyde Jernigan, feverishly dug at the 300 foot wide mound of earth in a futile effort to reach the two men. Five bulldozers and two power shovels were used, in the digging operations. The two men were appar ently killed instantly when struck by a large stump that had been uprooted in the elide, officers said. Campaign Expense Deadline Nov. 14 Campaign expense state ments must be in the county elections department by Nov. 14, County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins said today. This applies to all persons who spent more than $50 in support of candidates or meas ures for the recent general election, she explained. . Deadline for campaign ex pense statements for political candidates is Nov. 19, Mrs. Hopkins said. All candidates, according to state law, can not spend onore than 10 per cent of one year's salary for the office to which they are nominated. Each candidate is allowed to spend at least $250. she said. All warrants for payment of election officials' service were mailed today, Mrs. Hop kins added. Moon Shot Delayed; Now Slated Saturday Cape Canaveral, Fla.-ttiPD-The Air Force corrected the "technical difficulties" that forced postponement in launching its third moon rock et today and began preparing the 88-foot vehicle for another blast-off attempt early Saturday. Make Medford Beautiful GROANING FOR BURIAL These wrecked car and truck bodies are clustered next to Southern Pacific buildings near the Clark st. grade crossing. Removing them would help "Make Medford Beautiful." MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1958 SDodl :f 'm p- m 1 ,mmmmmmm mm PETITION Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal of Griffin creek school, presents County Judge Rodney Keating with a petition signed by Tree Inventory Of Parkways in City Completed A tree-by-tree inventory of street parkways has been com pleted by a three member subcommittee of the Medford tree committee, Mrs. O. A. Eden, general chairman, has announced. "Every tree on city park ways, with, one exception, she said, "has been counted and defined and entered on a master blueprint." The blue print will be kept in the of fice of City Manager Robert Duff as a reference when resi dents seek permission to re- move a tree. A city ordinance requires that residents get permission from the city to remove trees on city parkways, the area between the, street and the sidewalk or the outer edge of the right of way. Tree Not Identified " The one tree which has not been identified is at 820 Beek man ave., Mrs. Eden, said. Members of the- committee and tree authorities consulted could not identify the tree, although some said it appear ed to be a variety of oak, she added. The present owners said the tree was there when they pur chased the property. The com mittee would appreciate any identification I which can be made, Mrs. Eden said, and may notify the committee by writing to Trees, box 1349, Medford. The inventory committee was composed of Mrs. Eden, Mrs. W. L. Tucker and John Gribble. The program began two years ago when volun teers started mapping the spe cies, location, size and con dition of trees. The informa tion is being coordinated with the landscape committee's recommendations for planting trees in Medford. . Moscow-flJPD-The Soviet Un ion today celebrated the 41st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with one of the most moderate military pa rades seen here in decades. ADllll 120 parents asking that the county correct hazardous road conditions in the school district. Parents Petition Court to Correct Road Conditions A total of 120 parents, pro voked by the near-tragic Grif fin creek school bus accident last, Friday, have petitioned the county court to correct hazardous conditions on Dark Hollow and Pioneer rds. County Judge Rodney Keat ing, and Commissioners Ches ter Wendt and Ralph James, received the petition yester day from Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal .of Griffin creek school. Accompanying her to the courthouse were 16 other people, most of them young mothers. The 120 signatures, Mrs. Frink said, represented "a small part of the distressed and worried people" in the Griffin: creek district . Crowded Off Road The school bus, carrying 35 pupils, was crowded off the shoulder of Dark Hollow rd. by an unidentified passenger car late Friday afternoon. It rolled down an embankment, turning over completely , once and coming to rest on its right side. ' One boy suffered a broken leg. The others suffered cuts and bruises. Yesterday's petition asks specifically "f o r lmprove- Guest Artist To Appear at Concert Rafael Mendez, Los Angeles, one of the leading trumpet virtuosi in the world, will be guest artist at the Medford High school band benefit con cert at the High school audi torium at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, 1. A. Mirick, music depart ment head, has announced. The concert is to help raise funds to send the high school band to San Francisco for the eighth annual East - West Shrine football game Dec. 27 in Kezar stadium, San Fran cisco. Mendez appearance here is being underwritten by Purucker's Piano House, Med ford, Mirick said. The show will be produced by radio station KMED. Tickets, which will be dis tributed today, are available at the Music Mart, Purucker's, Emerald Music company, and from any member of the high sbhool band. Domiciliary Man Is Named To Firm Post John W. Sinders, personnel manager at the Camp White Veterans Administration dom iciliary, has been named vice president pro tem of Handi capped Industries, Inc., it was announced today by Eric A. Allen, 21614 North Peach St., president. He succeeds Richard K. (Die) Walsh in the position. Walsh has resigned from the firm, Allen said. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 196 ments on the Dark Hollow rd. Also Pioneer rd. from Griffin creek rd. to Dark Hollow rd. through to Coleman creek. - "These roads, it states; "are believed to be unsafe and a risk to travel. The road is not wide enough for two-way traffic. There are dangerous curves and other hazards that should also be corrected. "We as parents as well as taxpayers, request that the Jackson county road commis sion look into this matter as soon as possible and see that the above conditions are cor rected and the road made safe for two-way traffic in all places." Orderly Development "We're trying to make an orderly development of all of these roads," Judge Keating replied. "The court can't spread over all the bad spots at once," he said. "We solve as many of these. problems as we can every year." Commissioner Wendt said that some backwoods roads were paved before those in the valley to accommodate the lumber industry and minimize wear and tear from heavy logging trucks. Asked by one young mother if the court was thus "putting logging trucks and business before our children," Wendt replied that she had misun derstood him. He said that buses had to go along the backwoods roads too, and that logging trucks tore up those roads. Money From Roads - "Those are the roads from which we get our money to pave your roads," Judge Keat- "s tununeniea. tie was re ferring to the county's share of receipts from the sale of O and C timber. Another mother asked if the roads mentioned in the peti tion could be posted with cau tion signs. 'That's a temporary solu tion, saia Paul B. Rynmng. county road engineer. He add ed that construction work could not be started at this time of year as -the resulting mud would make the road im pasjable 'for the school bus ail. winter. "We want everything done for us we can have," Mrs. Frink said. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudv with rain tonight. Showers. Low tonight 52. High Saturday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest this Morning 54 Prec. to 10 .m. Today 09 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:58 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:53 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 3:39 a.m. New Moon Nov. 10 PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Cassiopeia, high in north . 10:01 p.m. In this position the brighter stars of the group form a let ter "W" in the sky high abova the North Star. Election Boards Complete Count Of Absentee Votes No Results Changed In Final Tally Two election boards com pleted counting the nearly 800 absentee general election ballots late Thursday, accord ing to County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins. The final tally did not change any results previously listed. The final count in the race between Dr. Edwin Durno, Republican candidate for the state senate, and Gordon Hud son, the Democrat, shows Durno received 12,394 to 11,783 for Hudson a margin of 611 votes. This was the only race which could have been changed by the absentee ballots. The absentee ballots were predominantly R e p u b lican. This was evident in some of the races where the Republi can candidate received twice as many votes as the Demo cratic candidate. Absentees gave Paul Geddes, Republi can for congress from the fourth district, 461 votes to 270 for Democrat Charles O. Porter. Mark Hatfield in the race for governor received 506 over Gov. Robert D. Holmes, 231 votes. Local Level On the local level, Mrs. Hopkins received 493 votes compared to 234 for Marvin Madden,; Democratic candi date. For state representative Mrs. Eve Nye, Republican, received 443 votes, followed by Mel Lattie, Republican, 398, Robert Duncan, 328, and Mrs. Marijane Duncan, 231. Durno received 477 of the ab sentee votes compared to 247 for Hudson. , Final unofficial total for county candidates: State representatives, Rob ert Duncan (D) 13,748, Mrs. Eve Nye (R) 12,296, Mel Lat tie (R) 10,460, and Mrs. Mari jane Duncan (D) 10,081. County clerk Marvin Mad den (D) 13,174, Mrs. Hopkins, (R) 10,939- - - Commissioner County commissioner, Ches ter Wendt (R) 13,392, Frank Christian (D) 10,561. County judge, Earl Miller (R) 13,487, Scott Hamilton (D) 10,445. Sheriff, Joe Walsh (R) 14,- 587, Larry Sheehan (D) 9,351. Results in the races for gov ernor, labor commissioner and congressman in the fourth district show that Jackson county residents voted as follows: Congressman for fourth dis trict, Charles O. Porter (D) 12,247, Paul Geddes (R) 12,- T- xt ' Governor Race . Governor, Mark Hatfield (R) 14,928, Gov. Robert D. Holmes (D) 9,570. Labor commissioner, Nor man Nilsen (D) 12,279, Lyle McCauley (R) 11,075. County residents also voted on 13 measures: Fixing state boundaries, yes 16,763, no 4,101; increase ing money for veterans' loans, yes 10,870, no 11,249; in creasing state legislators salaries, yes 10,896, no 11, 728; capital punishment ban, yes 10,298, no 12,037; fi nancing urban redevelopment, yes 10,428, no 9,173; modify ing county debt limitation, yes 11,593, no 8,075; special grand jury bill, yes 15,755, no 4,225. Other Measure Different use of state in stitutions, yes 12,742, no 7,375: temporary appointment and assignment of judges, yes no 5,046; state power development, yes 9,200, no 11,784; county home rule, yes 13,592, no 5,814; autho rizes discontinuing certain TB hospitals, yes 11,395, no 9,466; and persons eligible to serve in legislature, yes 12, 804, no 8,428. Medford residents defeat ed the sidewalk assessment proposal with a vote of 5,432 no, compared to 2,568 yes. For city councilmen Ward I, Fred Robinson 1,152, Roy Wilkes 1,042, and William Doernbach 451; Ward II, Don Hansen, unopposed, 2,068; Ward III, Robert Baccus, un opposed, 1,100; and Ward IV, Stanley Stark 766, and George Stacy 595. County Schools to Close on Monday Alf B. Mekvold, Jackson county school superintendent, announced today that all county schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 10 and 11. Monday the annual Teach er's Institute, required by law, is scheduled, and Tuesday is Veteran's Day, a legal holiday. SPADEWORK "Breaking ground" at the site of the Sears Roebuck and company store in the proposed East Jackson st. shop ping center yesterday are Otto Frohnmayer, president of the Jackson County Chamber New Experiment Station Gets Last Inspection Today Final inspection of the buildings on the new South ern Oregon Branch experi ment station property was scheduled this morning, ac cording to Harold White, sta tion superintendent. . The inspection party was to include the county court and architect. Total cost of the three buildings on the 81.4 acres -of the former Hanley property near Jacksonville is $61,768, according to White The buildings include a caretaker's residence costing $10,571, office and laboratory building costing $26,294 and implement and storage build ing costing $24,903. . The office and laboratory building includes the superin tendent's office and offices and laboratories for horticul turist, entomologis and agron omist. All but the agronomist are now moved into the new quarters. The caretaker is pow living in his quarters, White said. The agronomy farm near Talent will be vacated and the 50 acres put up for bid about the end of this month, White said. Plans are to release in three years the 27 acres of the old southern Oregon sta tion south of Medford and just off Highway 99. The Med ford station on Kings highway near Jacksonville will be maintained, he said. Proceeds from the sale of the two. ex periment station properties will be used to offset the cost of the new station buildings and property, White said. Experimental work on the new property is provided by 4,000 pear trees, with expan sion planned for each year, field and truck garden crops. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (UPD - Dow Jones final slock average: 30 industrials 554.26. off 0.59; 20 - railroads 151.80, off 0.71; 15 utilities 84.05, off 0.31, and 65 stocks 191.82, off 0.45. Sales today were about 3.700,000 shares compared with 4.890,000 shares Thursday. "How About This Will You Agree To Admit Inspections If They Don't Bring in Any Books?" NUCLEAR I EST BAM TALKS I Opinion Sought on CtecaOfl off Morse Grants Pass-flJPD-State Rep. Fayette I. Bristol (R.-Grants Pass) said today if it is possible, a movement will be launched in southern Oregon to recall Senator Wayne Morsel He said he has asked Attorney General Robert Y. Thorn ton for an opinion whether it is legally possible to recall the Oregon senior senator. In a copy of a letter he sent to Thornton, he said, "I would like an attorney general's opinion as to whether the seat of a senator of the United States, from the state of Oregon, is covered by the recall provision of the constitution of the state of Oregon. This particularly refers to Sen. Wayne Morse." Bristol said it is commonly accepted that U.S. senators are not subject to recall under the constitution. He said, how ever, that a recall movement would be launched if Thornton should rule that it is legally possible. The last time the question when Morse, who had been elected on the Republican ticket, changed to an Independent. Police Chief Named In Court Petition A petition for writ of ha beas corpus has been filed in circuit court by Ted Boatman, Bandon, through his attorney, John Chaney, Medford, against Mrs. Annabelle Warn, Deer Lodge, Mont.; Charles P. Champlin, Medford chief of police; and Merlin Abshire, detective with the Medford police department. According to the petition, Boatman charges the defend ants with the "imprisonment and restraint" of his 16-year-old daughter who had been living with Mrs. Warn, her mother, in Deer Lodge. The petition charges that the girl no longer desires to live with her mother, to whom she was awarded by the court following the di vorce of Boatman and Mrs. Warn, then Annabelle Boat man. Committed No Crime The petition further charges that the "imprisonment and restraint" of the girl is ille gal in that she has committed no crime nor is she charged with any crime. The use of the habeas cor pus proceeding apparently is being used as a technical de vice to get the matter before a court, and was instituted despite the fact that the girl is not under restraint and, in 1 s . urn i if f . of Commerce; Mark Goldy, local agent for the center's developers; Medford Mayor John W. Snider and W. Price Sullivan,1 northwest zone manager for Sears. arose in Oregon was in 1952, fact, has never even been held by local authorities. According to Chief Champ lin the local police depart ment was notified-in a tele phone call from Deer Lodge authorities earlier this week that the girl had run away from her home. Mrs. Warn had requested police assist ance in locating the girl, who was thought to be in Medford visiting relatives. Champlin said that the police located the girl at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Chaney, 1208 Winchester ave. Seek Permission The local relatives asked! police, Champlin said, for per mission to let the girl remain with them and that they would assume the responsibil ity of returning the girl to Montana if this was agreeable to Montana authorities. Champlin explained that Deer Lodge officials approved the request. Chief Champlin stressed that .the' local .- department never had the girl in custody at any time. ... A hearing on the petition has been scheduled for Mon day, Nov. 10, at 1:30 p.m. in circuit court. : : Portland-dJPD-A dispute over wprking rules has led to a shut down of the ceramics de partment of Bennett & Wil liams Co. here. Dedication Set for New Buildings at Ashland Two new South ern Oregon college buildings will be formally dedicated at the Alumni-Dedication j ban quet Saturday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in the new Commons dining hall. Dr. Charles D. Byrne, former chancellor of the Oregon state system of higher education, will be the main speaker. Special guests and the Homecoming queen and her court will be introduced by Dr. Alvin Fellers, chairman and SOC director of student affairs. Welcoming remarks by Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC pres ident, and Richard L. Clark, student body president, will be followed by the introduc tion of alumni officers by Hugh G. Simpson, director of alumni affairs. Mrs. Delleen Metzger, Ban Steward, Johnson Letters Tell of Plans To Resign Morgan Refuses Comment on Rumor Salem-IDPD-Gov.-Elect Mark Hatfield said today that career state employees need have no fear that "heads will roll" when he becomes governor. He made the statement after receiving letters from Agriculture Director Robert Steward and State Motor Ve hicle Director James Johnson informing him they intended to resign their posts effective upon Hatfield's inauguration. State Finance Director John' Richardson also said he would submit a courtesy resignation. Richardson said he has writ ten Hatfield advising him he will assist in any way possible an orderly transition to the Republican administration. - No Comment by Morgan State Public Utility Com missioner Howard Morgan had no comment upon plans to resign, although rumor had. it he would be replaced. "I'm just going to keep on at it," Morgan said. "I've got a lot of work to do." Hatfield assured division" chiefs of the secretary of state's office that he would appoint a new secretary to carry on his policies of the last two years. He said he would make any necessary state appoint ments as the best men were found and hoped for a friend ly reception in the agencies involved. In a letter to Hatfield, Ste ward said: Fine Caliber "You will find In this de partment personnel of fine caliber, good morale and high productivity. I commend to you, also, the State Board of Agriculture whose members represent a broad, practical cross section of Oregon agri culture." Richardson commented: "The day Gov. Holmes leaves, my resignation will be on Gov. Hatfield's desk as a mat ter . of courtesy and subject, of course, to his pleasure." But Richardson said he had no plans now to do anything but what he was doing. Parking Program May Be On Ballot Medford residents may vote on a municipal off-street park ing program in the near fu ture The eitv council Is sched uled to decide whether to call for such an election at an ad journed meeting next Wednesday evening, Nov. 12. Mayor John W. Snider told the council last night that an ordinance setting up the elec tion is beine DreDared. He said it would be ready for council consideration next week. Tentative date for the elec tion, if the council is agree able, is reportedly Dec. 10. Mayor Snider said this ac tion is being taken in an ef fort to "crystallize" the off street parking situation. j The general nature of the program, according to city hall sources today, is the es tablishment of a downtown assessment district to finance construction of off-street park ing facilities in that area. La Grande (UPD Chester Murdock, minister of the As sembly of God church at Union, was injured today when struck by a falling tree' top while helping cut trees near Union. College don, president of the Southern Oregon college Alumni associ ations will give a brief mes sage prior to the presentation of the new Commons dining hall and the men's dormitory, Siskiyou hall, to the Oregon state board of higher educa tion. . Donald E. Lewis, college business, manager and assist ant to the president, will make the presentation. He will also introduce representatives from Church, Newberry, Roehr and Schutte of Portland, archi tects, and contractors Graff and James of Medford. Open house will be from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Com mons and Siskiyou hall. The evening's activities will end with the traditional Home coming dance in the Britt Student center ballroom from 1 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. i
